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[Avacado]

My graves are very human-like. I find a nice spot on the map, where I dig out the graves, which consist of a down ramp into the ground and a single tile dug out. The coffin goes into the single dug out space. When a dwarf dies and is put in a coffin, I place state on the ground level directly above the coffin, and put a floor over the down ramp.
This means that after a lot of deaths, I have a huge field of statues, which is nice to look at in Visualiser.

My current fortress has a small graveyard like that.

[Stargrave]

i always like to think of my dwarves as socialists and sort of minimalists. having a giant chamber devoid of markings or coffins. the bodies are simply placed on the floor in an orderly grid and left to decompose. not unlike a Zoroastrian funeral where a body is placed in the desert on a bed of rocks for vultures to eat. the result of this tomb is a chamber of undisturbed bones. also worth mentioning this "tomb" has a door to keep the miasma under control but will sometimes give your dwarves an unhappy thought of having to endure the decay of a friend etc, i feel its not unnatural for dwarves to have unhappy feelings when a friend dies and is put to rest.

[waldo]

coffins? nonsense, any dwarf of mine who is stupid enough to die by the hands of an orc is not worthy of burial. they are put on display in a conveniently located stockpile of both refuse and corpses. the ones who are worthy are promised burial but are not given it. though i am thinking of giving burial to my miners, they are usually the only ones who survive anything.

[jfs]

Digging up an old thread because it's relevant.

My new invention: The Dwarf Warehouse.

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Construction is not yet complete, I'm still having grates and coffins produced to provide walkways and fill the shelves. There's one further level than shown in the graphics but there's no walkways there yet.
The final construction will hold 600 deceased dwarves and pets in a modern industrial design.

[Jacob/Lee]

Their final resting place is where the goblin mutilates them.

[garfield751]

Digging up an old thread because it's relevant.

My new invention: The Dwarf Warehouse.

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Construction is not yet complete, I'm still having grates and coffins produced to provide walkways and fill the shelves. There's one further level than shown in the graphics but there's no walkways there yet.
The final construction will hold 600 deceased dwarves and pets in a modern industrial design.

i love the look of that and how you incorperated the stairs between the shleves it gives me an idea to build an above ground one cept for surplus stuff instead of coffins.

[Djohaal]

Actually, an answer that has to do with magma. Why not give your dorfs a ritual burial in wooden or otherwise meltable material, put them in a chamber surrounded by magma and rise the magma's level to consume them? Back to armok's blood!

[SkyRender]

I do this.

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The catacombs are a place of intrigue.  The maze of identical rooms with four coffins and a green glass statue each serve as a deterrent to potential thieves.  And should I ever get around to installing them, the rockfall traps will have a similar effect.

[darthbob88]

I have lots of ways to lay my dwarfs to rest. First and simplest, I've built a few coffins in the mineral veins I dug out, so decent citizens who I was fond of can rest within the heart of the mountain. I also put noble tombs here because frankly, I don't care enough to give them tombs with statues, but engraving's cheap and easy. Following that, I've built a glass pyramid 8 z-levels high, where non-brainless non-notable dwarfs may rest; those people to whom I felt no particular attachment and no particular enmity, who didn't die of stupidity. I also have enough space that I could conceivably put coffins in dining halls and other places of note, for dwarves to remember the noble sacrifices made by their champions. Finally, the real last resting place for nobles, other useless dwarfs, and anybody who died by stupidity, my obsidian farm. Cremation and annihilation, their memory being lost with their bodies.

[xdarkcodex]

I just chuck my dead into the graveyard stockpile.

[JaaSwb]

So far I've been reserving the bottom of the fort for burial, with decorated tombs for the nobles and large communal burial chambers for the commoners, with small mausoleums in them for notable dwarves. A single mason also lives down there, with his own workshop, who builds all the coffins and is the only one with burial enabled (unless there's suddenly a lot of burying to do).

Next fort I think I'll try something a bit more original though.

[n00bs4uce]

Usually I don't bother with burial unless there's miasma or a noble is complaining about it, but on the last fortress one of my more impressive dwarves died and I had to make a dozen coffins before he could be buried (I think free coffins are assigned in order of death, so all the useless peasants/military 'casualties' that had long since rotted to dust were appearing first in the ones I built).  It's a little bit maddening that tombs can't be assigned to the dead, it would be nice to be able to properly honor military heroes if they die bravely.

You can designate a room with a tomb and assign it to whoever you want.

Also, I just use my refuse pile for my current fort, been getting hit hard, need mats for quick weapons and I'm not very wasteful.

[nenjin]

Commoners get put in the traditional cross shaped crypts, and each gets a niche. They get laid in chronologically so I can see who died when by what wing they are in.

Pets get buried in the underground forest.

When the pop cap starts to spike, or I just start losing newer dwarves like crazy, I make a communal burial room where they get ordered lines.

Legendary dwarves that I actually cared about get a 3x3 room in a separate crypt altogether. Champions and military legendaries might get a large one based on how much ass they kicked.

Dungeon Master tombs go under my prisons, connected to the Dungeon Master's suite.

The nobility have their own separate crypt (because they refuse to decay even in the same vicinity as "the rabble"), and because it helps me visually see the succession.

The Philosopher gets no tomb usually, for death is just an illusion...unless he's become good friends with people I seriously don't need freaking out. Then he usually gets a wood coffin and sleeps in the pet cemetery.

And the original embarkers get their own separate crypt, faaaaaaaaaarrrr below the fortress. The entrance is typically above my kitchens in the ventilation system. I usually make the route to the tomb as twisted and looping as possible, going up levels sometimes, down levels and cutting close by major points of interest in the fort. I make the founder's tomb a big open air area, and lay exotic road tiles and artifacts I have no immediate use for near them. If I can I add a waterfall. I figure if a dwarf ends up down there, somehow, they're entitled to some grand sights.

I know, I put a ridiculous amount of effort into burial for what you actually get out of it.

[Shade-o]

The fort in my sig has a nice necropolis in a tower-cap forest, waay down deep under the mountain.

That underground cavern system and redirected river is incredible, and I am so doing that.

[M.R. Siegal]

Usually it's large coffin filled space for plebs, isolated chambers for nobility/heroes, and a separate pet cemetary.

In one fortress I had a tomb for every dwarf.  There were crypts where all the dwarfs of a family were together.  It was actually pretty neat because it forced me to follow the lineage of the families.  Some interesting stories came out of it.